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Moderation work means looking at things you’d rather not look at. Wellness settings let you take some of the edge off the queue (blurring images, dropping color, muting video by default) without hiding so much that you can’t make a decision. There are two places these get configured:
  • Workspace defaults, set by an admin and applied to every reviewer in the project.
  • Personal overrides, where each reviewer adjusts the defaults for their own account.
Personal preferences always take precedence. If a reviewer hasn’t set anything personally, the project defaults apply. If neither is set, the system falls back to no protection.
Wellness settings are deliberately not available from the review queue itself. Otherwise reviewers would be tempted to turn protections down mid-shift, with the content right in front of them. The settings live on a separate page and use harmless gradient previews, so you never see real queue content while you’re adjusting how it should look.

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Personal wellness settings

Each reviewer configures their own preferences from the wellness settings page.

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Blur level

You can blur images and video frames at one of seven levels (0 to 6). Zero is no blur. Six is heavy enough that you can tell something is there without seeing the details. Hovering a blurred or grayscale image briefly reveals the original, for the times you actually need a closer look.

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Grayscale

Show images and videos in grayscale. Color is often what makes graphic content hit hardest, and pulling it out keeps the shape and composition visible while taking the punch out of the rest.

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Mute videos by default

Videos in the detail view start muted. Press play and they unmute on their own. The setting decides what happens before you press play, not what happens once you do. That way you don’t get blasted with audio you weren’t expecting, but you’re not fighting the player either when you actually want to hear something.

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Workspace defaults

Admins can set defaults for the whole project on the reviewer wellness page under project configuration. Defaults kick in for any reviewer who hasn’t set their own preferences. They’re useful for queues with rough content, like a CSAM or graphic-violence queue, where you want every reviewer protected on day one and not left to figure it out themselves. Reviewers can still override the defaults from their personal settings if they want stronger or weaker protection.
For high-risk queues, set a meaningful blur level and turn grayscale on at the project level. Reviewers who want a clearer view can opt out individually, but nobody starts unprotected.

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How settings get resolved

For each item, the queue picks settings in this order:
  1. Whatever the reviewer set personally.
  2. The project’s defaults.
  3. The system fallback (no blur, no grayscale, videos unmuted).
Each setting is resolved on its own, so a reviewer can override just the blur level and still inherit the project’s grayscale default.